CaseDisk2016

Surprise, AZ, USA

Started in middle of sky...made a turn....when I closed up with camara yhe object seemed flat but invisible..I see a lit of military je

Report quality: High73/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2016-03-29
Where
Surprise, AZ, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
33.631, -112.333 · exact
Slug
disk-over-surprise-az-2016-8c3642
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • This is one of 80 reports logged in Surprise, AZ.
  • This case is one of 238 Arizona reports filed in 2016.
  • Disk craft made up 3.8% of 2010s reports, vs 5.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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